Namrata Goswami is an independent strategic analyst, author, and consultant. She spent nearly a decade working at India’s Ministry of Defense-sponsored think tank, the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses in New Delhi. In 2012, she was selected to serve as a Jennings-Randolph Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), Washington D.C., and in 2016 established her own policy consultancy. She is the author of three books, India’s National Security and Counter-Insurgency; Asia 2030; and Asia 2030: The Unfolding Future, and is currently working on two others